A few days ago I bought a small collection of G.B. covers with a few stamps. I don't know a lot about this area but find it very fascinating. All the covers, it seems to be from the same woman (suppose she had family or friends across the pond) I paid practically nothing for the whole collection so I was going to sit it aside and do some research at another time. I had a few minutes last night so I looked around a bit and found that some of these might be worth a bit of money. The stamps on this cover are imperforate and from what I've read are hard to come by? Also, im curious about the letters "E. P. " with the ribbons and bell to the left of the stamps. Is this some type of festival cancel? FYI the stamps are used but haven't been cancelled upon. Obviously this woman was a collector and I think these covers were sent to her to simply add to her G.B. collection. I'll post pics of others when I get a chance today.
King George VI stamps of this sort are quite common and not particularly valuable. Even as imperforates I suspect they are not worth much unless the margins are large enough to definitively show them to be such and not a stamp that has had the perforations trimmed. If the two stamps were connected together that would of course be another thing. As far as the cancel is concerned I'm just going to throw out my theory as I don't know definitively. I suspect the "EP" stands for either English Post or Empire Post as "bells" has historically been a symbol of the postal service.
So true, unfortunately these types are dime a dozen, reason being I put aside. I had never seen an imperforate of that until I looked it up but couldn't find any others on a cover. Here is another I think is pretty neat. It has something to do with the first British nuclear energy conference. What I find most fascinating is the collection of ink stamps on the front but especially the back. Wish I could figure out what they all mean. I can make a few out but others I cannot.
I have to agree with you that this keepsake of the conference complete with a Queen Elizabeth stamp stamped at the conference is a very nice find. I suspect most of the stamps on the back are probably bank related and not specifically relevant. It would be interesting to know if the guy was well-known or not.
There is a Frederick W. Hunton still alive in Lafayette California ( age 76) Google is our friend Frederick W Hunton in Lafayette, CA | Age 76. Background Report ». Also known as: Fred W Hunton. Current Addresss: 3179 Stanley Blvd Lafayette, CA 94549. Could be his son also, but interesting ..if you an find a phone number it might be fun for you to ask him. It was payment for 2 journals and he could have been in college, or his dad/relative could have been a professor. The stamp was a revenue for transfer of a foreign check I suspect. Jim
Very interesting information Jim. With Americans typically moving every 7 years it's amazing he still lives at the same address he lived in in 1957... or as you say possibly the son.
Wow that is wild! I would suspect if he is 76 and still alive that it is the same person. Strange to think he wrote that check all those years ago and 57 years later found its way across the country to my hands on a stamp club with information leading it back to him. Very cool!
